Adding Background Music Underneath Narration on a Single Slide in Capt 5

Question

I just finished putting together my first Adobe Captivate 5 project and  there is one last detail I need to learn how to do. I have recorded  narration on every slide. I now want to insert background music  underneath my title (first) slide and on the conclusion (last) slide.   Somehow I accomplished this on the first slide, but I cannot remember  how I did it and cannot seem to replicate it on the last slide. I  imported the jingle called Corporate Video2 from the Adobe library. When  I click on my last slide and go to Properties and click Edit Audio, I  hear my narration. When I click on my last slide and then go up to the  little music note icon up top on the toolbar called “Background Audio” I  see and hear the corporate video jingle. How do I meld these into one audio file? What is the  proper technique to add background audio? Should you lay down the  background music first and then record audio or the other way around? Is  there some little trick or glitch I’m missing? I only want to do this on one slide, not the entire project. When I preview the  project I only get narration, no music, even though when I go to  Background Audio, it looks like I have successfully imported the music  file. PLEASE HELP! I got this far and want to put this project to bed!  Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi there,
Welcome to Adobe Captivate Forums
In Captivate audio can be recorded to 1. Slides, 2. Objects and 3. Project background.
So you can record in whatever way you want to. In the case from what you mention, i can understand that you need to add background audio to first and last slide of your project.
First let me explain you that background audio will be for the entire project. So if you add an audio to project background then it plays for the project till the end of audio. If you want the audio to loop over and play again then you need to enable that option in background audio dialog. This way audio will play in background for the entire project.
Now considering your case i can understand that you have recorded audio for individual slides. So the slides already have a audio and you cant add two audio files to the slide. To accomplish this what you can do is to insert a text caption on first slide ( and last slide) of the project and make the text caption transparent. Later you can delete the text of the text caption . This way you have an object on slide which is not visible to others. Now you can import audio( background music) to this text caption and in the published output you can hear the audio from the text caption and the slide audio.
This will give you narration + Background audio on specific slides effect.
Try it out and let us know if you wanted anything more than this.
Thanks
Ashwin Bharghav B
Adobe Captivate Team